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Church of Santo Tomás Cantuariense

Late Romanesque church of the 12th century, with a single nave with a wooden roof and a Latin-cross plan, notable for its three stepped semicircular apses and a cornice supported by corbels with human heads, animals and plant motifs. Inside, with sober ornamentation, the capitals of the crossing are striking, including one with two horsemen facing each other, as well as the brackets with faces of different ethnic groups. It keeps a 15th-century Hispano-Flemish tabernacle with angels carrying the instruments of the Passion, a 16th-century crucified Christ, a 16th-century panel of the Virgen de la Consolación and the tomb of Bishop Diego de Velasco. The north portal, with pointed archivolts over sculpted columns, was added in the 16th century.

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